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The United States carries out more airstrikes

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We report from the frontline, as Iraqi Kurd soldiers try to halt

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They are digging in there for what looks like a fight. As the fighting

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continues, Britain drops its first humanitarian aid packages to the

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tens of thousands of Also on the programme this evening,

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Baroness Warsi, who resigned over Gaza,

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warns the Conservatives won't win the next election unless they appeal

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to more ethnic minority voters. The Australian couple accused

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of abandoning a surrogate baby with people trapped in the mountains. We

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want to bring him with us. Down's Syndrome speak publicly

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for the first time. And Arsenal beat Manchester City,

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to lift the Community Shield US forces have carried out further

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airstrikes in Iraq, against militants from The Islamic

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State, the group formerly known as ISIS, which has taken control

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of large parts of the country. The attacks came as Britain

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delivered its first airdrop of humanitarian aid, to people trapped

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on a mountain in northern Iraq. US airstrikes were concentrated

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around the Kurdish-controlled city of Irbil, where thousands of

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Christians have taken refuge from Our World Affairs Correspondent

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Caroline Wyatt has travelled beyond Kalak, west of Irbil,

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where Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been digging in, to try to halt

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the militants' advance on the city. Taking aim at the Islamic state.

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Kurdish soldiers say they are now determined to fight back against the

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militants who have sown terror in their wake. Kurdish bulldozers are

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creating a defensive line to stop the extremists in their tracks,

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something these soldiers have been unable to do over the past weeks and

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days. These Kurdish fighters have now brought us to what is the final

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front line. They are digging in over there for what looks like a fight,

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because behind that rage is now controlled by the Islamic state. The

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men here want more ammunition and support from the US. The Brigadier

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in charge of this outpost blames the West for allowing the Islamic state

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to gain territory so far. TRANSLATION: What are the

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international community, the UN council therefore, if not to defend

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peace and humanity here. Of course, we want the Americans and others to

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be serious about air strikes to help us. But the families who had sought

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refuge at the camp just crossed the road are taking no chances. It

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emptied, as they fled again, many to the town of Irbil, just 40

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kilometres away. Already there, the Iraqi Christians. The men, women and

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children driven out of their homes a week ago. The Sunni fighters told

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them to convert to Islam or die. Tens of thousands of Iraqi Christian

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families have sought sanctuary here at the Cathedral and other churches,

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in private homes, and in derelict buildings across the city. Nobody

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knows how long they will have to stay here, seeking sanctuary, but

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they are beginning to realise it could be a long time. This

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three-month-old boy and his sister are too young to understand what is

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happening, but their parents do. Their mother breaks down, as she

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tells me she had to leave her mother behind, and doesn't know now if she

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is alive or dead. Her husband says the men took everything, first

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looting their houses then destroying their churches. We need an

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intervention now, and immediate intervention to help these people,

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because they are sleeping outside in the streets, actually in public

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places, so they are without nothing. And they are just a fraction of the

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hundreds of thousands of Iraqis forced to flee their homes in what

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people here are calling a humanitarian disaster that the West

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is failing to stop. The Iraqi government has said

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hundreds of members of the Yazidi community, who've taken refuge

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in mountains in the north, had been As we've heard,

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the international community is starting to provide aid,

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but has also told Iraqi politicians that they needed to show unity,

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to fight the extremist threat. From Washington,

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David Willis reports. The latest pictures from Mount

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Sinjar paint a truly appalling picture of human misery. Children,

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hurt and hungry, their parents in constant fear of attack. There were

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thought to be tens of thousands of members of the minority Yazidi

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community stuck here, after being driven from their homes by the

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militants. Aid supplies are starting to get through, and RAF Hercules

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delivered water supplies overnight, and American cargo planes have been

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doing the same. France too has pledged humanitarian support but the

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French Foreign Minister, on a visit to Iraq, said the fate of the

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country rests with the Iraqis themselves. TRANSLATION: It is

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particularly important at this moment that Iraq has a broad-based

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unity government, and all Iraqis must feel represented. Together,

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they can lead the battle against terrorism. The rapid advance of the

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Islamist fighters caught the White House off-guard, and there have

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already been calls here for the president to be more aggressive. The

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President's policy, for now at least, is one of containment,

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limiting the advance of the Islamist militants, but his critics argue

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that without a timetable he lacks a coherent strategy for dealing with

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this latest threat. The US continues to mount air strikes in the north of

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the country, and America's present in the skies above Iraq may be a

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feature of life for quite some time to come.

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In the last hour, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators

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have accepted an Egyptian proposal for a new 3 day ceasefire in Gaza,

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More than 1,900 Palestinians and 67 Israelis have been killed in the

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Our Middle East correspondent Orla Guerin is in Gaza.

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So, some slight glimmer of good news, if this cease-fire can indeed

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take hold and maintain? Well, I suppose it will be seen here, Jane,

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is another window of possibility. The cease-fire is due to begin at

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about midnight local time, that is 10pm in the UK. It is supposed to

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last for 72 hours. Earlier today, Palestinian factions had agreed, and

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then Israel also accepted the Egyptian request. Israel has said if

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the truce holds into tomorrow, it will send its negotiating team back

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to Cairo so those stop start talks can begin again. On both sides of

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the board of the warfare has been continuing. Four Palestinians have

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been killed today in a series of air strikes, the death toll includes a

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teenage boy and a woman. On the other side of the border, Israel

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says at least two dozen Palestinian rockets have landed, and within the

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last hour, we ourselves were very close to an F-16 Israel ES track, it

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happened within one minute of our hotel. The target was an apparently

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empty factory, but I can tell you the ground and all the buildings

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around shock. So certainly the night, until this truce takes place,

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Israel ES trikes are continuing and the conflict is still continuing. --

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air strikes are continuing. Baroness Warsi, who last week

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resigned as a Conservative minister because of the Government's stance

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on the Gaza conflict, has said the Tories won't win the

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next election unless they do more to But one backbench Conservative has

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said the Baroness has "embarrassed herself",

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with what he described as a tirade. Here's our political

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correspondent Vicky Young. Is the first Muslim woman to sit in

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Cabinet, Lady Warsi was seen by some as a symbol as to how the

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Conservative Party had changed and the David Cameron's leadership. For

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years, she was a familiar face beside her leader, but just days

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after resigning she has turned on him and lashed out at colleagues she

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describes as bitchy. Lady Warsi has previously mocked David Cameron for

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surrounding himself with old eat onions, and in her interview she

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contrasted her own background as a northern working-class woman is the

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premise to's public school advisers. She said:

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The peer resigned last week over what she called the government's

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morally principled policy on the conflict in Gaza, but critics say

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she has now gone too far. I think it is more of an embarrassment to

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herself today that she has moved from her principled resignation

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about an issue she believe strongly in the then start criticising the

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government in many other areas, which haven't reflected in her

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original resignation. She also told the Sunday Times the Conservatives

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would not win a general election outright until they started

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attracting more of the ethnic vote. This former adviser to Boris Johnson

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says the Tories do need to reflect modern Britain and it is a work in

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progress. There is a need to have more representation sometimes in the

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party, and that is what the party has been trying to do. That it is

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why it disappointing that Baroness Warsi has left. She brought an

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argument to the table, I am sorry to see her go, I'm sure the prime

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ministers as well. We need to now build on the good work she has

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done. Downing Street are refusing to be drawn on this, just repeating

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that the prime list was disappointed Lady Warsi left government. But they

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won't thank her of adding to the criticism often made of David

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Cameron by Labour that he and the Tory party are remote and out of

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touch and then to understand the lives of ordinary British voters.

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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become the country's

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With more than half the votes counted,

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Mr Erdogan has around 52% support - and a significant lead

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Until now the post has been a government appointment.

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An Australian couple accused of abandoning a surrogate baby with

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Down's syndrome, say they did want to take the little boy home.

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Speaking publicly for the first time, David and Wendy

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Farnell claim the surrogate mother in Thailand refused to give them

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The couple, who live near Perth, then returned to Australia with

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It is yet another twist in this already confused and complicated

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case. At the centre of it, the seven-month-old baby, born with

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Down's syndrome to a Thai surrogates mother. The Australian couple

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accused of abandoning him first said they had not known about their son,

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with the surrogate claiming they left the baby because of his

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condition. Now, Wendy and David Farnell claim they did want to take

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him, along with his twin sister, but weren't allowed. We wanted to bring

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him with us, but things were happening that we couldn't. The

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surrogate mother wanted to take our girl. And we were getting scared

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that we were going to lose her. The baby's sorry but has also changed

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her story. She now claims she didn't allow the couple to take the boy.

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TRANSLATION: I have never said I wanted to keep both babies. I did

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not allow him to go back with them because I feared he would be put in

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an institution. Now the Australian couple are being looked into, after

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revelations about David Farnell's past convictions. I have been

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convicted of child sex offences, I hang my head in shame for that. This

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has now become a case of who is telling the truth. The Farnells say

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they will fight to get their son back. His surrogate wants to keep

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him. His future stills seems very much uncertain.

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Heavy rain and strong winds have battered parts of Britain, as the

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remnants of the Caribbean Hurricane Bertha sweep across the country.

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In Hull, a small tornado brought down trees and damaged cars.

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The storm struck the south coast of England this morning,

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and nearly a month's worth of rain fell in parts of Wales overnight.

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Nine Met Office Flood Warnings, and dozens of Flood Alerts,

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Arsenal have won the traditional curtain raiser to the football

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season, the Community Shield. They beat Manchester City 3-0 at Wembley

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to win the season's first silverware. The Community Shield is

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a less precious piece of metal work than some bubble's prizes, as much a

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statement as a trophy for the reigning and FA Cup holders. Arsenal

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seemed intent to show that they can build on that victory. Santi Cazorla

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is two into games for the gunners, both in Wembley finals. City offered

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curiously little. Their free kick did prompt English's football first

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few or finishing spray but moving any other marks was proving tricky

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without many of their stars. Their defence faded fast when Aaron Ramsey

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ghosted through. Another goal from a cup final goal-scorer. The champions

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found some direction at half-time but not enough to beat Wojciech

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Szczesny in the Arsenal goal. And any hint of a revival ended when

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Olivier Giroud took aim. A deflection helped it in, the ball

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and the game had gone over City heads. Arsenal went nine years

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without a trophy. They are rediscovering the feel of them. That

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is all for now. I will be back with the late news here on BBC1 at 10pm.

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